HerrMonnezza

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LoCO.js: a JavaScript/C++ application framework(locojs.com)
3 points by HerrMonnezza 13y ago|0 comments
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Google Compute Engine now available to everyone(cloud.google.com)
5 points by HerrMonnezza 13y ago|0 comments
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How Big Data will mean the end of Job Interviews(blogs.smithsonianmag.com)
2 points by HerrMonnezza 13y ago|0 comments
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Elasticluster: on-demand computational clusters on IaaS cloud(github.com)
1 points by HerrMonnezza 13y ago|0 comments
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by HerrMonnezza 14y ago
Try localepurge, http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal/localepurge
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by HerrMonnezza 14y ago
> What irritates me is when high-profile projects like Chrome and Firefox (...) then promote themselves as serious, professional-standard projects that people can rely on. They and their evangelists take great pride in stealing market s
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Irish newspapers to charge sites just for using links(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by HerrMonnezza 14y ago|0 comments
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XKCD: Biologists play reverse Pokemon ...(xkcd.com)
4 points by HerrMonnezza 14y ago|0 comments
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Why is Belarus the only country where Opera is the most popular browser?(theatlantic.com)
46 points by HerrMonnezza 14y ago|44 comments
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by HerrMonnezza 14y ago
My understanding is that "precursor event" has a specific meaning in seismology, i.e., sentence 2. is more restrictive than 1. But I'm no expert, so I'll be grateful if someone with the knowledge could clarify.
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by HerrMonnezza 14y ago
A recent pre-print paper suggests that a few mistakes in Widom-Larsen's calculations lead to overestimating the amount of energy that can be produced: A correct calculation gives a neutron production rate from (1) about 300 times smal
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by HerrMonnezza 14y ago
(Mostly an edited repost of a comment I made in yesterday's discussion on the same topic.) A blog post on Nature.com about a month ago explains better why they were on trial, which is not the misprediction that an earthquake was imminent:
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by HerrMonnezza 14y ago
A blog post [0] about a month ago explains better why they are on trial: The prosecution’s closing arguments [...] made it clear that the scientists are not accused of failing to predict the earthquake. “Even six-year old kids know
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Maximal Unviable Products(blog.leanstart.ch)
39 points by HerrMonnezza 14y ago|5 comments
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Privilege escalation vulnerability on 64-bit Intel CPU hardware(kb.cert.org)
62 points by HerrMonnezza 14y ago|35 comments
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by HerrMonnezza 14y ago
I'm afraid I'm no expert - I just reviewed the converters because I would have liked to use Python both on the client- and the server-side; however, I eventually abandoned the idea. I'm not sure how a converter could "skip over stuff it doe
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by HerrMonnezza 14y ago
This looks great and more advanced than the other Python to JavaScript translators on the market. Last year, I wrote a comparison of the ones I could find, but none of them actually was in very good shape: http://chargen.blogspot.com/2011/
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by HerrMonnezza 14y ago
I'm not sure how they compare to Ruby's "ruote", but there are quite a few Python workflow managers and libraries out there. GC3Pie ( http://gc3pie.googlecode.com/ ) is a Python library for running many-task workflows featuring interruptibl
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by HerrMonnezza 14y ago
GC3Pie is a Python library for running many-task workflows (not just DAGs): http://gc3pie.googlecode.com/ Currently, it is mainly targeted at grid/cluster computing but it's evolving. (Disclaimer: developer here.)
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by HerrMonnezza 14y ago
Interesting project. But apparently has not seen any activity since March 2008.
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Vietnam seeks help with mystery disease: 19 dead(usatoday.com)
1 points by HerrMonnezza 14y ago|0 comments
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by HerrMonnezza 15y ago
I agree with the general trend that the author points out, but he speaks as if this was happening to all Linux distributions alike (he almost always uses the word "Linux" with no qualifications). This is not the case: distributions that
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by HerrMonnezza 15y ago
IkiWiki (Perl-based) is another wiki backed by git (or svn, or bzr, or other VCSes), and has also other nice features like static website and blog generation. [1]: http://ikiwiki.info/
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by HerrMonnezza 15y ago
The link is the text of an article [1] by Simone Santini that appeared in: Computer, Volume 38 Issue 12, December 2005 It's a parody piece, although the author declared that "Many of the sentences that I use in the article are from actual r